146 Consequences of the Deluge.

superstrata (as the Chymists speak) shouldcome, but from the Sediments of AteatFloods, which how or whence, they couldbring so great a quantity of Earth doWfl>when there was but little Land above ll^Sea, I cannot fee. And one would likewiseapt to think, that such a Bed of Sands, wid 1plenty of Cockle-shells intermixt, as we mo-tioned before in the Mountain near Bono0in Italy, must have been sometimes the bo c 'torn of the Sea. But before one can give^right judgment of these thing's. oneview the Mountains where such Layers afldBeds of Earth and Shells are found : for pef'chance they may not be elevated so high 2'bove the present Surface of the Sea, as oO ewould judge by the descriptions of thel§'‘Tis true (lays my worthy Friend Dr. f# 1 'cred Robinson ) that Jome Sheds mightheenscatter d up and down the Earth by iscampments of Armies, by the inhabitants C JCities and Towns, whereof there are now sremains. Mounfieur Lou here, the late FreflojEnvoy to Siam, affirms that the MonkeysApes at the Cape of Good Hope, are aim 0 ™continually carrying Shells and other Mari^Bodies from the Sea-fide up to the Mountainyet this will not solve the matter, nor give fny jatisfaftcry account, why these perjell fi }e f.are dif per ft up and down the Earth , in all C* 1 '

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